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Playstation All Stars Battle Royale

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A few weeks ago, Infamous 2 voice actor Eric Ladin Tweeted that he was back in a motion capture suit and doing more work as Cole, the game's hero. When he confirmed it wasn't for another Infamous game, we all jumped to the conclusion it was for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.

Today, he's confirmed it -- along with the fact that Metal Gear Solid's Snake and Uncharted's Nathan Drake are in the game. Or he's just trolling everyone.

Ladin's Tweet doesn't spell out characters, but it does say that he's part of a PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale cast with Drake's voice actor Nolan North and Big Boss/Solid Snake voice actor David Hayter.

PlayStation refused to comment calling the Tweet "rumor and speculation."

There is an IMDB listing for the game showcasing these actors, however this page has been in constant flux. At one point, it had a different voice actor for Cole and characters that have since been removed -- folks like Sully from Uncharted. So, even though the list looks solid now, take it with a grain of salt.

Let us know what you think of the cast so far in the comments below, and then vote in our poll letting us know who you'll play as first from the confirmed PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale cast.

Super Smash Bros is a classic no doubt but you can't complain about this game "copying" SSB. Every game has copied another or was heavily influence and that doesn't stop them from being good games. Anyone going to complain karate games were influenced to Street Fighter? And that SFII was copied?

The point is all games will influence something in another, this game doesn't look wack to me. I want to see a list of character plus a demo before I get this.

Dayum they got Snake in this !? LOLOL guess he won't be in the next Smash Bros. game. Oh and Nintendo lost for losing Snake to a ripoff LOLOLOL. If I were Sony I'd go as far as even giving Snake the same moves from Brawl just to smack them in the face.

This is the folly of the internet. Its become a bastion of misinformation, rumors, conspiracies and propaganda. A place where a person with no face or name can make accusations at any time with no verification or credentials and brainwash a small segment of people.

I want to play this but theres no denying that they straight bit the overall look and visual style of Smash Bros. Theres no way around that and you gotta be a fool to try and say otherwise but that may be where it stops. The game will probably be completely different from Smash under the surface so I think its too early to just shit on this game and dismiss it as a complete Smash copycat until you play it. I would love to see Grey Fox and Lara Croft in this game.

Sony fighting game PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale has been confirmed for Vita.

The news comes from the online CV of a sound designer at Sony Computer Entertainment America.

Said employee lists the game for release on PlayStation 3 (announced) and PS Vita (unannounced).

PSABR, announced last month, is Sony's answer to Nintendo's Smash Bros. series, and includes four-player co-op, gameplay set on a 2D plane, and a roster of characters including Kratos, Parappa the Rapper, Fat Princess, and Sweet Tooth.

Will the PS3 and Vita version feature cross-platform play, as some PS3/Vita games currently do? All eyes are on the E3 trade show.

So it sounds like this is turning into "Licensed Characters Battle Royale". Sony cant really do it all by themselves so that's understandable.

I heard the attacks don't even do damage tho? The whole game is about building meter so you can use a super attack and KO people....but that's the only way to do it. Sounds dumb. I guess that's their way of trying to separate themselves from Smash Bros, but if you are gonna copy everything else you might as well copy that too.

Anyway, Sony fanboys are supposedly starting a petition to have it changed. LOL.

What I just said was based on people who played it. Very recently actually.

They didn't say it was bad, just that it wasn't as good as Smash Bros and a big reason for that was because its a fighting game where the attacks don't do damage and its off putting. They said they didn't understand why they would copy every single thing about Smash except this one thing.

I seen the footage, it separates itself from SB by a different style of play, the only thing it copies is the fact there's gaming icons fighting. This game seems more tactical than SB, in SB you could get knocked out by someone button smashing but in this game you need to build up your meter to win, so you need to combo up more carefully. Your power-up bar does go down if you're being beaten up too, so defense is going to be big.

I think this game has done enough to separate itself as an exact clone, it only took an idea and created a different format.

I seen the footage, it separates itself from SB by a different style of play, the only thing it copies is the fact there's gaming icons fighting. This game seems more tactical than SB, in SB you could get knocked out by someone button smashing but in this game you need to build up your meter to win, so you need to combo up more carefully. Your power-up bar does go down if you're being beaten up too, so defense is going to be big.

I think this game has done enough to separate itself as an exact clone, it only took an idea and created a different format.

Well, Smash Bros can be played/approached different ways. It can be strictly a party game, or something deeper. This doesn't seem any more or less "tactical" than Smash Bros. and in none of the previews has that been alluded to. Only Sony fanboys who want to act like this game is somehow on the level of Virtua Fighter in terms of technicality so it doesn't seem like a complete Smash Bros rip.

The fact that its a complete and utter Smash Bros clone really goes without saying bruh, that's not even up for discussion. The gaming world has come to a consensus on that one, sorry. Only the die hardest of PlayStation stanboys would even still try to deny that...and probably will. The question is, will it be any good?